Event With the 16th pick, Blazers have selected Hansen Yang

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wizenheimer said:
did anybody ask Cronin just how the Blazers would have landed him last season?
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I don't think a reporter would ask that question because there's no way Cronin would answer it. He would never say that he would have moved (or passed) on a player who is currently on the roster.
 
B-Roy said:
all this is irrelevant if you believe Yang is the best player. Not that I like the pick, just saying the rationale.

also, rockets just played Adams and sengun for a non insignificant amount of time in the playoffs, successfully. Just saying.
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I mean if you think both players are going to be stud starters then yes you draft them and can consider trading one of them down the road.

Just kind of an odd use of a very limited lottery pick. This likely will be our final of 4 years of lottery picks in the post Olshey rebuild. Someone like Coward/Bryant/etc could have played in a rotation with everyone one of our youth the next decade. Yang and Clingan are destined to never fit well on the same team together.
 
Tince said:
I don't think a reporter would ask that question because there's no way Cronin would answer it. He would never say that he would have moved (or passed) on a player who is currently on the roster.
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lol...you obviously never saw Jason Quick in a press conference....he'd be Cronin's huckleberry
 
I'd say Ayton's expiring deal and Reath's deal will be traded or let go before long.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
I mean if you think both players are going to be stud starters then yes you draft them and can consider trading one of them down the road.

Just kind of an odd use of a very limited lottery pick. This might be our last year of a lottery pick in awhile. Someone like Coward could have played in a rotation with everyone one of our youth. Yang and Clingan are destined to never fit well on the same team together.
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If that happens you just trade the one that’s worse, a la Jokic.

I didn’t like the pick, but none of the guys we passed up have more than role player potential IMO, besides KJ, so whatever.
 
wizenheimer said:
lol...you obviously never saw Jason Quick in a press conference....he'd be Cronin's huckleberry
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Ha

Well he must not have been at the presser because it wasn't asked. Cronin offered up wanting to draft him last year after talking about how long they had been scouting him and how high they are on him. Seems to think he is really special.
 
Tince said:
I don't think a reporter would ask that question because there's no way Cronin would answer it. He would never say that he would have moved (or passed) on a player who is currently on the roster.
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Correct. Also even if you had a confidential Cronin interview - they're not going to game plan how to select a player that isn't in the draft. They gather assessments on these players for years. Then days/weeks before the draft plot out how to maneuver and select their targets. Yang was never in the draft at the time they were targeting Clingan/others.
 
B-Roy said:
also, rockets just played Adams and sengun for a non insignificant amount of time in the playoffs, successfully. Just saying.
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successfully? they lost that series against a team that spent most of the series without a C on the floor
 
B-Roy said:
all this is irrelevant if you believe Yang is the best player. Not that I like the pick, just saying the rationale.

also, rockets just played Adams and sengun for a non insignificant amount of time in the playoffs, successfully. Just saying.
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Adams and Sengun are both under 7ft but more importantly have mobility that the 7ft Clingan and 7ft Yang dont. If it was one of Wemby or Chet types we likely could try some crazy twin tower center lineups together. Clingan and Yang never will be able to.
 
B-Roy said:
The won the Adams/Sengun together minutes.
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ok...so in this sequel, is it Yang or Clingan playing the Sengun role? Yeah, that's a trick question because neither has anywhere close to Sengun's mobility. Adams is probably quicker than either
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Adams and Sengun are both under 7ft but more importantly have mobility that the 7ft Clingan and 7ft Yang dont. If it was one of Wemby or Chet we might be able to play twin towers together. Clingan and Yang never will be able to.
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They are not very mobile. Certainly not good on the perimeter. But regardless, I'm just saying thinking outside the box is not always a bad thing. No one would have thought the Pacers could make the finals with the way they've gone about building their roster.
 
wizenheimer said:
ok...so in this sequel, is it Yang or Clingan playing the Sengun role? Yeah, that's a trick question because neither has anywhere close to Sengun's mobility. Adams is probably quicker than either
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Are you dense? This was just in response to a poster saying they could never share the court together. I'm just saying there is proof that isn't exactly true.
 
Chris Craig said:


Yang was the target from the beginning

He was the guy

Cronin says he was the best player available

They weren't comfortable going further back than #16 for fear another team would poach him.

We could very well go into next season with 5 centers.
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Apparently Cronin sees something in Yang that 29 other GMs do not.
 
B-Roy said:
They are not very mobile. Certainly not good on the perimeter. But regardless, I'm just saying thinking outside the box is not always a bad thing. No one would have thought the Pacers could make the finals with the way they've gone about building their roster.
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B-Roy said:
Are you dense? This was just in response to a poster saying they could never share the court together. I'm just saying there is proof that isn't exactly true.
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Clingan and Yang will never share the court together. Find an example of two slow footed lumbering drop coverage 7 ft bigs that have ever done that successfully together. The Rockets and Pacers were both totally different styles of play and we've seen many teams do those same styles successfully.
 
B-Roy said:
Are you dense? This was just in response to a poster saying they could never share the court together. I'm just saying there is proof that isn't exactly true.
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obviously they could be on the court together. It just wouldn't work unless the goal was tanking
 
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